MWirelabs/meitei-monolingual-corpus

Meitei Monolingual Corpus (Bengali Script)

A clean, deduplicated, sentence-level Meitei corpus in Bengali script, curated for civic-first NLP research and public deployment.

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📦 Dataset Overview

• Language: Meitei (written in Bengali script)
• Size: 1,766,810 sentences
• Format: Parquet (auto-converted from Hugging Face Dataset)
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — attribution required

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🧭 Sources

This corpus is primarily derived from:

• IndicNLP Monolingual Corpus (Meitei subset in Bengali script)
• Internal civic and linguistic data curated by MWire Labs

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🧹 Cleaning Pipeline

The dataset was processed using a modular, reproducible pipeline:

1. Boilerplate removal — stripped repeated headers, footers, and template artifacts
2. Script validation — retained only Bengali-script Meitei content
3. Sentence splitting — long lines split using Bengali punctuation (।, ?, !)
4. Exact deduplication — applied separately to long and short sentences
5. Final merge — resulting in a clean, diverse, sentence-level corpus

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✅ Intended Use

This dataset is suitable for:

• Language modeling and fine-tuning
• Civic NLP applications (retrieval, summarization, classification)
• Benchmarking Meitei language tools
• Public deployment and linguistic research

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🔖 Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite: @dataset{mwirelabs_meitei_2025, title = {Meitei Monolingual Corpus (Bengali Script)}, author = {MWire Labs}, year = {2025}, url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/MWirelabs/meitei-monolingual-corpus}, license = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }

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🗂️ Notes

• This corpus does not include Meitei Mayek script.
• Future versions may include Mayek-script data and parallel corpora.

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